Card holding or exhibiting device.



No. 868,998. PATENTED OCT. 22. 1907.

S. R. LANG. CARD HOLDING OR EXHIBITING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN.24,1907.

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SAMUEL R. LANG, OF INDIAN ORCHARD, MASSACHUSETTS,

GARD HOLDING OR EXHIBITING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 22, 1907.

Application filed January 24, 1907. Serial No. 353,833.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL R. LANG, a British subject, and a resident ofIndian Orchard, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in ard Holding orExhibiting Devices, of which the following is afull, clear, and exactdescription.

This invention relates to exhibition-devices, and more especially toholders or stands adapted to contain pictures, cards, etc., and it hasfor one of its objects the provision of a collapsible article of thiskind, which may be set up in the form of an easel.

My invention has, furthermore, for its object the provision of means forholding the object to be exhibited, infirm contact with the holderwithout the employment of extraneous or special devices.

My invention has, furthermore, for its object the provision of improvedmeans for maintaining the easel or card holder in distended condition,these means comprising a brace which is preferably formed from a portionof one of the holder-sections.

Further objects of the invention will hereinafter appear and be pointedout in the claim.

The particular purpose of the invention is the provision of an easelstand adapted to receive a card,

, photograph or any other object which is to be shown in raised orpractically vertical position, such easel being at the same time adaptedto-be collapsed when desired andwithout rendering it necessary to removethe article held thereon.

In the accompanying drawings, in which similar characters denote similarparts,Figure 1 is a front perspective view of a holder embodying myinvention. Fig. 2 shows a rear view of the same.

The holder shown in Figs. 1 and 2 comprises two independent parts, viz:a front plate F, and rear bracing plate R, connected in the manner bestshown in Fig. 2, in which it will be seen that the rear plate It has alip portion 10 adapted to be passed through slits 11, 12, of the frontplate F, said slits constituting the bounds of, and forming what may betermed a band 13 whereby the lip 10 will be snugly retained. The latteris narrower than the main body portion of the rear plate B, so thatshoulders 14, 15, are established which will contact with the rearsurface of the front plate F, and consequently offer a substantialsupport for the same, when the plate body is bent outward on the lip-junction line.

The distending member or brace for the easel is in the present instanceformed of a portion of the rear plate R cut at 16 to form a tongue 17which may be bent forward on the crease line 18, and the forward end ofwhich is reduced in width (observe out line 19 in Fig. 2) to form a lip20 which is adapted to be passed through a slit 21 in the front plate F,and then bent toward the face thereof, thus locking the front edge ofthe tongue in the same, inasmuch as the tongue can not be pushed throughsaid plate on account of the shoulders 22, 23, resulting from the cut19.

The means for retaining the card or other object to be exhibited incontact with the holder or easel, consist in the present instance of aseries of flaps 25, 26, formed by slitting the front plate F, andadapted to project over the edge of the'card, the outline of which isindicated by broken line at in Fig. 1. The number and shape of theseflaps is, of course, immaterial, and they may extend the entire lengthof the side if so desired. In connection with the flaps 26 it may bestated, however, that they perform a certain function beside that ofpreventing the card from slipping downward, this new function beingapparent in the combination with the card and the tongue lip 20, whichlatter will be maintained in its flattened condition by the card, which,again, is held from springing outward by the fiaps 26, so that inreality these fla'ps in combination with the exhibit card serve to lockthe tongue-end or lip 20 in place and against rearward or pulling-outmovement.

If desired, the upper portions of the front and rear plates F and R maybe prevented from separating, by the employment of a button, eyelet, orother fastener passed through registeringapertnres a b in said platesrespectively.

I claim The combination, with a pair of connected plates, and aiongue'nttnched to one of said plates, and projecting through and beyondthe outer face of the other of the plates, of award, and flaps cut fromone of said plates.

and bent outward, for supporting said card and for holding the same inengagement with said projecting portion and for locking the same againstdisplacement.

Signed by me at Springfield, Mass,

SAMUEL R. LANG.

Witnesses:

WM. S. BELLOWS, G. It. Dmscott.

